Johnny Cash to Appear in Guitar Hero

Some people just shouldn't be reincarnated in video game form. But as Game Guru reports and the "Guitar Hero" website confirms, Johnny Cash will be a character in the forthcoming button-masher "Guitar Hero 5". If Cash had lived to see this day, I have to imagine that he would've squinted his eyes and muttered to himself, "What the shit is this?" (Via NME)

Alongside folks like Carlos Santana and Garbage's Shirley Manson, Cash will be an unlockable character in the game, which feature's Cash's song "Ring of Fire". Hopefully the Man in CGI Black will at least kick the footlights out.

A new trailer for the game, which you can check out below, shows us what happens when Cash's ageless mug is converted into computer-animated polygons. It's arguably even more unsettling than Mark Romanek's "Hurt" video.

"Guitar Hero 5" is due September 1 from Activision. As previously reported, it'll feature songs from unlikely figures like Elliott Smith, Vampire Weekend, and TV on the Radio. Hopefully they'll restrain themselves from turning Smith into a playable character, too.